YouCaring
| YouCaring | |
|---|---|
| Web address |
www |
| Commercial? | Yes |
Type of site | Crowdfunding |
| Available in | English |
YouCaring is a free crowdfunding website for personal and charitable causes. YouCaring runs entirely on donations and does not charge a fee for their platform, though their donation processors (PayPal, WePay, and Stripe) charge fees.[1][2][3]
Notable Fundraisers
- Musical group Doomtree created a YouCaring campaign for rapper P.O.S to help cover the secondary costs associated with a kidney transplant.[4]
- Science fiction author Jay Lake used the website to pay for whole genome sequencing, towards the "small possibility that the results of such a test...may suggest a treatment path"[5] for his colon cancer, which since 2008 has "progressed from a single tumor to metastatic disease affecting the lung and liver, recurring after multiple surgeries and chemotherapy courses."[5] After his successful campaign, Lake publicly criticized Paypal for the terms and processes the company uses when it thinks there's a fraud risk.[6] His experience was cited in news coverage over Paypal's public promise to introduce "aggressive changes" to its frozen funds policy.[6]
See also
- Comparison of crowdfunding services
- Fundly
- GiveForward
- GoFundMe
- Indiegogo
References
- ↑ Kayleigh Kulp, “Need Cash for Health Care? Ask!: How crowdfunding websites can help you pay for expenses”, AARP, June 2012.
- ↑ Kayleigh Kulp, “How to Use Crowdfunding to Cover Health-Care Bills”, Fox Business, 27 April, 2012.
- ↑ Eliza Barclay, “The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills”, NPR, 24 October, 2012.
- ↑ Lily Rothman, “Musician Health Care Crisis: Rapper P.O.S. Crowdfunds New Kidney”, Time, 1 November 2012
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Sequence a Science Fiction Writer". YouCaring. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Pepitone, Julianne (January 21, 2013). "PayPal: 'Aggressive changes' coming to frozen funds policy". CNNMoney.com. Retrieved 2013-01-21.